[bravoelf]

Hello everyone.

Completely new to linux and need some help.

My laptop's fan works almost constantly in Fedora 8.

I've made some search and found this topic: MY laptop fan runs constantly..doesn't on windowsXP - Ubuntu Forums

But its relates to Ubuntu Linux only.
In Fedora there are some folders: /etc/acpi/events. In these folders you can find these files: Power.conf and Video.conf

This is the print what is inside of those files:

Power.conf

# ACPID config to power down machine if powerbutton is pressed, but only if
# no gnome-power-manager is running

event=button/power.*
action=/bin/ps awwux | /bin/grep gnome-power-manager | /bin/grep -qv grep || /sbin/shutdown -h now

video.conf

# Configuration to turn on DPMS again on video activity, needed for some
# laptops. Disabled by default, uncomment if your laptop display stays blank
# after you close and open the lid.

#event=video.*
#action=/usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on

Please help me to solve this problem.
Just tell me how can I check if this situation is "Ok" or not.
What about all of those commands in power.conf and video.conf?

Thank in advance.

[bravoelf]

Problem is solved!!!!

I've turned off the "pcscd" service, it seems to took a lot of my CPU usage, and that one caused my fan to work all the time.

You can just stop it

 /etc/init.d/pcscd stop 

and then wait for about 30 min to verify if it helps.

And if it does, just turn it off forever -->

chkconfig --level 2345 pcscd off 

That's all for my issue.

Best regards guys.